Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of occupation; the state of being unoccupied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.

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  • noun The state of being unemployed; lack of occupation.

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Examples

  • Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • In the vast and melancholy sea of my disoccupation I clutched like a drowning man at any human driftwood within reach.

    The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

  • Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.

    House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899

  • He asked if Mrs. March were with him, and said then he supposed they would want their usual quarters; and in a moment they were domesticated in a far interior that seemed to have been waiting for them in a clean, quiet, patient disoccupation ever since they left it two years before.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • The boy on the stairs, who was to fence him from importunate visitors, led a life of luxurious disoccupation, and whistled almost uninterruptedly.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • The boy on the stairs, who was to fence him from importunate visitors, led a life of luxurious disoccupation, and whistled almost uninterruptedly.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

  • At the Port station Frank was pleased and soothed by the tranquil air of the policeman, who sat in his shirt-sleeves outside the door, and seemed to announce, by his attitude of final disoccupation, that crimes and misdemeanors were no more.

    Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

  • He found Mrs. Westley in a moment of disoccupation before he went, and used a friend's right to recognize the brilliancy of her Thursday.

    The Coast of Bohemia William Dean Howells 1878

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